Women’s Cross Country Takes Third At Carleton’s Running Of The Cows, Men Seventh

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The Gustavus men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at Carleton’s Running of the Cows Saturday with the men taking seventh place out of 12 and the women finishing third out of 12. Carleton won the women’s race and Carthage won the men’s.

“There were a lot of good teams at this meet and for us to finish ahead of some teams ranked higher than us in the region, it was a great result for us,” Head Coach Brenden Huber said of the women. “We’ve had good results now in our past two meets with different people producing, so it’s great to see our depth. We want to finish high in the conference this season as we’re showing that we’re much better now than a year ago.”

“We let Stumbo go out in front and not hold back today, and he showed what we already knew about him,” Huber said. “He is going to be one of the best for us and hopefully in the conference as well. The whole group competed well and we got after it more today with a hard week of practice. They are getting more confident as a group and that bodes well for having a primarily young squad.”

The Gusties have next weekend off and then compete at the UW-La Crosse Jim Drews Invitational (men) and Tori Neubauer Invitational (women) on Oct. 14. The men’s race begins at 10:30 a.m. and the women at 11:30 a.m.